Word: snipered
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...familiar story of almost suicidal ROK bravery, of heavy enemy losses, and of heavy ROK losses. The Reds were still fighting the war of attrition, apparently profitable to them, that began nine weeks ago on White Horse Hill, then switched to Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge, then to the two nondescript brown lumps called Little and Big Nori...
...went into its seventh week. U.S. corps officers and liaison men who had seen it were sick and sad at heart. Said an A.P. dispatch: "Some [U.S. officers] have wept as pitiful remnants of full companies dragged their way back down the shell-blasted slopes of Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge. Combat rifle companies are sprinkled heavily now with green replacements...
...after day, the pattern of battle repeated itself like a recurrent nightmare. Again & again, the Chinese Reds attacked Sniper Ridge, sometimes forced the South Koreans to give ground, but always in the end were bloodily repulsed. Again & again, the ROKs assaulted Triangle Hill; sometimes they got within 10 yards of the top, but always they were thrown back...
...brave South Koreans were sometimes too proud for their own good. Once, when they were dislodged from the peak of Sniper, their commander failed to report it for fear of losing face. He intended to counterattack the next day, without air and artillery support, and win the position back. If he had tried it, his force would have been slaughtered. But higher echelons discovered the plan in time and gave the ROKs the support they needed...
...quietest day in nearly a month came to the Sniper-Triangle area. A few U.N. planes strafed Chinese positions back of the front lines. The first snow of the winter came softly down...